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Outlook Therapeutics Announces UK MHRA Marketing Authorization of LYTENAVA™ (bevacizumab gamma)

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​​​​​​​On July 08, 2024, Outlook Therapeutics announced it received marketing authorization from UK Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) for the treatment of wet AMD in the UK....more

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UK Government Launches Critical Imports and Supply Chains Strategy

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The strategy aims to boost supply chain resilience of critical goods. On 17 January 2024, the government launched the Critical Imports and Supply Chains Strategy (the strategy), which aims to safeguard UK supplies of goods...more

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A Look Ahead in Life Sciences: What We Are Tracking in Q1 2024 and Beyond

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As the life sciences, medtech, and diagnostic industries continue to expand and grow increasingly complex, so does the legal, regulatory, and compliance landscape. To help companies and investors navigate the many evolving...more

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UK CMA issues 'prioritisation statement' to allay competition law fears that prevent combination therapies reaching NHS

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The UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has taken the unusual step of issuing a prioritisation statement on cooperation between competitors to make combination therapies available to the NHS. The CMA worked closely...more

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Lowest-risk Clinical Trials Will Benefit From a New Notification Scheme and a Shorter Period for Application Processing

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On 12 October 2023, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (the MHRA) announced that the healthcare and life sciences sector will benefit from a new streamlined notification scheme for lowest-risk clinical...more

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A Look Ahead in Life Sciences: What We Are Tracking in Q4 2023 and Beyond

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As the life sciences, medtech, and diagnostic industries continue to expand and grow increasingly complex, so does the legal, regulatory, and compliance landscape. To help companies and investors navigate the many evolving...more

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UK’s Medicines Regulator Announces Guidance on the New International Recognition Procedure for the Approval of New Medicines from...

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Earlier this year, the UK’s medicines regulator, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), announced that a new International Recognition Procedure (IRP) will be put in place for the approval of new...more

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European Biosimilar Regulatory Updates

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STADA and Xbrane Announce Approval of Ranibizumab Biosimilar in UK - On January 16, 2023, STADA Arzneimittel AG (STADA) and Xbrane Biopharyma AB (Xbrane) announced that the UK’s Medicines and Healthcare product Regulatory...more

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Senator Mike Lee Introduces the Biosimilar Red Tape Elimination Act to Eliminate Switching Study Requirement for Biosimilar...

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On November 17, 2022, Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) introduced the “Biosimilar Red Tape Elimination Act” to increase biosimilar competition and reduce patient costs by prohibiting the FDA from requiring switching studies to approve...more

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The UK’s MHRA Updates its Guidance on Licensing of Biosimilars

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On November 7, 2022, the UK’s Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (“MHRA”) updated its “Guidance on the licensing of biosimilar products” by expanding the criteria for achieving interchangeability between a...more

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Litigating Over Clinical Trials - The Importance of Causation

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In a recent judgment in Cardiorentis AG v Iqvia Limited and Anor [2022] EWHC 250 (Comm), the English Commercial Court examined in detail, for the first time in the United Kingdom, the duties and standards required of contract...more

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Kids now can get Covid shots. Will they? And what about the new anti-Covid pills?

Even as the coronavirus batters parts of the country, notably the Mountain West, public health officials are pointing to key ways in which Americans could safely and effectively further quell the pandemic that has claimed...more

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UK Life Sciences and Healthcare Newsletter - February 2021: Are We Nearly There Yet? The Search for a Disease Modifying Drug for...

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Background - Osteoarthritis (OA) is the most prevalent joint disease, estimated to affect 250 million people worldwide with prevalence increasing due to aging populations and growing levels of obesity. OA causes a...more

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UK Life Sciences and Healthcare Newsletter: Regulatory Updates

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MHRA updates post-transition guidance Since 31 December 2020, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has been updating various aspects of the regulatory regime for medicines and medical devices...more

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Accord Healthcare has Launched Zercepac® (Trastuzumab) Biosimilar in the UK

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Following approval by the European Commission in July, last week Accord Healthcare announced the launch of Zercepac® a biosimilar to Herceptin® in the United Kingdom....more

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Federal Circuit Revolutionizes Country of Origin Analysis for Pharmaceuticals

The Federal Circuit Court of Appeals has just rejected the longstanding U.S. government position that the country of origin of pharmaceuticals in the context of U.S. government procurement is determined by where the active...more

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The Court of Justice of the European Union provides clarifications on the assessment under competition law of pay-for-delay deals...

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On 30 January 2020, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) issued its decision on a request for preliminary ruling submitted by the UK Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) in a case concerning the long-standing...more

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Celltrion to Launch REMSIMA SC (infliximab) in Europe in March, 2020

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Multiple sources are reporting that Celltrion is planning to roll out REMSIMA SC, its subcutaneous infliximab biosimilar of Johnson & Johnson’s autoimmune disease treatment REMICADE, in Europe in the first quarter of 2020,...more

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Financial Daily Dose 1.28.2020 | Top Story: Markets Tumble as Fears Spread Over Coronavirus Epidemic

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A mounting death toll (over 106 and counting) and fears of a coronavirus pandemic sent markets tumbling early on Monday and kicked off a selloff that continued all day....more

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Financial Daily Dose 10.21.2019 | Top Story: Four Drug Companies Reach Last-minute Deal to Avoid Start of Federal Opioid Trial

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A last-minute deal between defendants McKesson, Cardinal Health, AmerisourceBergen, and Teva and plaintiffs’ attorneys means that multidistrict opioid epidemic litigation set to kick off in Ohio federal court today will not...more

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Financial Daily Dose 10.6.2019 | Top Story: Drug Distributors and Maker in Talks for Multi-billion-dollar Opioid Litigation...

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A group of three major drug distributors—McKesson, AmerisourceBergen, and Cardinal Health—are in the midst of talks with representatives of state and local governments who have brought more than 2000 opioid-related lawsuits...more

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New UK Medicines and Medical Devices Bill Announced

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The Queen's Speech, which set out the government's proposed plan for new legislation, included a new "Medicines and Medical Devices Bill". The government's background briefing describes the purpose of the Bill as ensuring...more

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Financial Daily Dose 8.28.2019 | Top Story: British PM to Suspend Parliament in Bid to Push Through Brexit

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Man-of-the-people PM Boris Johnson is set to as the Queen to suspend parliament for 5 weeks in an attempt to squeeze the time for opposition to the October 31st Brexit deadline, a move that’s prompting concerns about a...more

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[Event] Pharmaceutical Patent Term Extensions – The Only Specialized Forum on SPCs and Patent Protection in Europe and Around the...

This year’s C5’s Pharma Patent Term Extensions Forum arrives at a critical time for the pharmaceutical industry. Overarching developments from the Teva U.K. decision (C-121/17) to the SPC Manufacturing Waiver and the most...more

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New UK MHRA No Deal Guidance

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With the possibility of the UK leaving the EU on 29 March 2019 (a "no deal" Brexit) still on the table, life sciences companies are continuing their "no deal" preparations....more

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